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I have been nominated for the Liebster award

It's been an awfully long time since I published a post on this blog, but it's about time, and I have been prompted to since I have been nominated for the Liebster award, much to my amazement and delight.

I decided to accept since I feel totally honoured although terribly unworthy. This might encourage me to get my act together and blog more. So, thank you, Anna.

Now, this is a very good opportunity for me to draw your attention to some other wonderful new bloggers, and I hereby nominate them for the honour of the Liebster award. You can find them listed below, and I encourage you to visit their blogs and enjoy:

5. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?
Gairloch in Scotland... no wait... make that anywhere where mountains fall to the sea or a lake.

6. How do you like spending your free time?
Free time? What's that?

7. What is your most abiding memory?
Walking behind my dad as we returned from collecting eggs from the hens. I would have been about three years old, and I remember trying hard to step where he stepped so that the dew in the long grass didn't soak my shoes. This was rather difficult as he also entrusted me with the basket of eggs, which I knew had to be kept safe.

8. Who is your favourite writer?
So many to choose from, but Alexander McCall Smith has to be one of my top favourites, especially his Number 1 Ladies Detective Agency series, set in Botswana, a place and people I relate to so easily since I hail from South Africa.

9. What type of music do you like?
Now you've got me. So many to choose from. Let me say any music where voices and/or instruments (real ones) are used with clarity and passion. This would cover Bach's Toccata and Fugue in Dm to my favourite mad violinist, Ashanti Floyd.

10. What tends to annoy you?
Stupidity and unnecessary noise. I think the two tend to accompany each other. I'm sure I don't need to clarify the former, but the latter includes loud exhausts on cars, that dreadful thud thud that emanates from the same vehicles and which some call music, as well as the so-called music that one is forced to listen to in various shopping establishments.

11. What quality do you most admire in people?
I really enjoy people who are honest and candid, kind and intelligent. Oh right, that's four qualities. Pick whichever one you like best.

Here are 11 random facts about me:

I've finally decided at the age of 57 what degree I want to do.

I was born in a place called Pietermaritzburg, which is also called umGungundlovu. This is why I prefer English.

2 comments:

What fabulous answers, Jennie, and what riveting tit-bits about you. I love your witticisms and, thanks to your excellent response, feel that I’ve got to know you a little better. My head is spinning from all the places you have visited; what an incredibly well-travelled lady your are! And isn’t it funny that we both like Alexander McCall Smith? I’m so pleased we have met in the blogosphere! Warmest wishes. Anna

Anna, I'm so pleased you liked my answers. I think I even know myself a little better, too. I meant to mention that my dad called the house we lived in when I was a child, Keswick, and that my maternal family comes from the Lake District. Amazing coincidences in life, which I prefer to call synchronicity. It's been wonderful meeting you in this cyber-world. Very best wishes. Jennie